Leaders of a church-run day care are apologizing after several of the children escaped and made it out to a busy highway.

It happened Tuesday afternoon at Pinedale Christian Church's day care in North Carolina as two teachers were monitoring a group of 20 children out on the playground. Six of the kids made their way out of the enclosed playground unnoticed.

The "escapees" got into the church building, went down a hallway, and five of them then made it out the front door. A sixth child was so young he couldn't open the door.

Angie Herman was driving with her fiance on busy Peters Creek Parkway nearby when she got the shock of her life.

"Here comes a little boy, running down the center lane," she told TV station WGHP. "I'm screaming at my fiance, 'Get him, get him, get him, get him, get him!'"

The speed limit on the parkway is 55 miles per hour. An officer happened to be in the area, and together they realized the kids had come from the nearby day care.